LET'S PROVE THERE'S A RELIGION IN OUR LOVE // DEVOTION IN BEYOND EVIL
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What should Inspector Han do now? Should he shoot me? You’ve never shot anyone, have you? Aim for the heart or the head. It’s harder than it sounds. If I survive, it’ll be the end of both you and your father, the next Commissioner General.
On paper HJW looks like he's had a better life than LDS. By all accounts Dong sik has had more losses in his life but he's always had someone who supported and loved him (Jeong-je, Nam Sang-Bae, Jihwa, Jihoon, Minjeong, Jae-yi, his sister, his parents, and even Minjook (ew)) but before LDS, Joowon has never known or experienced love. I think HJW's mom loved him but he's never had any kind of real love in his life because of her addiction, before LDS and the Manyang crew. I can't imagine how alone he must've felt growing up with nothing and no one. He's just so important to me.
this is so jwds coded, they begin and end in the same way (juwon coming to manyang to arrest dongsik, and juwon finally arresting dongsik in a very emotional way)
"i'd still know you, not being shown you" juwon and dongsik are able to sense things about each other, no matter what they tried to conceal individually, the other could see right through it.
when juwon tells dongsik "don't speak like you know me" dongsik does in fact know juwon very well, and that makes juwon very uncomfortable. not having a close relationship with anyone his entire life, having someone finally understand him feels so foreign to him
and finally "i only need the working of my hands" juwon and dongsik would know and find each other in darkness just by touching the others hand, an act that communicates so much without words.
Ok, hear me out... I noticed Han Juwon is very autistic coded, his restriction with food, his bluntness, how he hardly ever understand tones and jokes, his cleaning habits, how he goes "all the way" in his cases like an obsession, his social issues... Do I need to keep pointing?
But now let's talk about his special interest/ hyperfixation! Some might think it's on the murders, but I truly believe it's on Lee Dongsik. Ever since he found out about Lds existence he, the brilliant number one police officer of the academy, can't think straight (ba dun ts). And Hjw is very intelligent, the story show us all the time how he's capable, he goes after clues in places people don't, he makes fast connections and identify patterns, he pay attention to details that go unnoticed by other people, he knows the law so well... so I kept thinking, why is he always so pathetically wrong in his analysis, specially in the first half of the series? And the only reason I can think of is because of his obsession with Lee Dongsik. All his mistakes are based on his belief that Lds is involved. He was SO sure Lee Geum-Hwa would meet Lds... he never considered anyone else could be the suspect even thought THE ONLY THING on Lds was the accusations from the past. Then he manages to be transfered to manyang to observe Lds closely. But what's funny is that he keeps breaking the rules and keeps interacting with Lds, he doesn't treat him as a suspect at all, he shares too much and treats him as someone he deeply wants to understand. He asks Lds questions a detective would never ask a suspect and Lds points that out (the writters knew that Hjw's behavior doesn't make any sense!!!). But Hjw needs to see Lds, he feels the necessity to talk to him, to understand what the other thinks, for Hjw THESE are more important than actual proves, more important than respecting boundaries, even more important than catching the real culprit, his real objective from the beginning was to catch Lds no matter what, and no matter why. Because he can't get his hyperfixation out of his mind!!!!
Ps: Researching for this I found some autistic people sharing about hyperfixation in other people and if they feel if that's love or not, and I can totally see Hjw on some of them!
Because both the audience and Han Joo-won think that Dong-sik is going to do that thing where he tries to be all clever and outsmart Han Joo-won by asking him if he's going to choose his father over Dong-sik.
But then Dong-sik, still in his "cool, sly and mysterious" mode, asks him if HE, Han Joo-won, son of his sister's murderer, is going to be okay if his father was the culprit.
And Han Joo-won is visibly taken off guard because he breaks his cool like it was never there and goes full "Are you asking me if I'll be okay 🥺?" on Dong-sik who's like "Ah, fuck."